Woo HEFER 7 c ae fee of the = B 3 l-Mr. Mones » FEDERAL DUNEAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D.C, 20535 Octoher 3, 1977 te, J. Danning 6 mw omen We" neting Regional Director United States Dopartrent of the Interior tational Park Service onal Capital Recicn FRIFILENO. 95976255 1199 Ohio Yrive, 8. VW. Msshington, D. C. 20242 NTIOGISOT? MI Be: : D-770520075 PIT PRVITNATION OF_JOINT WELNES ‘YOUR NO. S NIARY ae ISTERED LAB. NO. Clerence M. Kelley Director Examination requested i . Addressec Reference: e a Letters 5/19/77 and 6/3/77 Examination requested: Bocurent , Svecimen received §/19/77 uiter cever of letter dated 4/19/77 (D-779529035 Py i" Q1 0 Dhary of John Mitkes Reoth Specinan receive? 6/15/77 under cover of letter datel 6/2/77 (D-770615073 Pi): Kl Two letters written hy Joi WILRRS poor Fnelosures (3) Page 2 een (ovorleseeee Terns err Be MEH, aE matrtiden U4 leKSewel =! Eas TBR afse]27 catia Bey EA Bong LM 188 Privy . fs W AIL ROOM “Feverver vst C27Result of examination: Whe diary is identified as a "Pocket Diary, 1964, games M, Crawforé, No. 54 Fourth Street, St. Louis, Mo." ‘Tho diary is contained in a leatherbound: folder approximately 6 1/16" X 9 1/0" when fully opened. It is trifold design with a large pocket inside the front cover and pockets for postage, tickets and a holder for a writing instrument inside the back cover. ‘The diary is glued in place in the middle section, Beneath it is another large pocket. All of the pockets were lined with a fabric. There is an impression in the center pocket, possibly from a coin, measuring approximately 11/16 of an inch. ‘The first twenty-four pages are mechanically printed with miscellaneous information. 3etween the inside front cover and the first page of this miscellaneous information there have been two sheets (four pages) cut out. ‘There arc sixty dated diary paces beginning with the page printed “Saturday June 11, 1864" and ending with the page headed “Thursday December 29, 1964." There are two additional pages dated “Memoranda” and eighteen pages headed "Cash Account." 1864 was a leap year and each sheet in the diary contains six dates. Assuming that the first missing sheet was headed January 1, 1864 and the last printed date on the bottom of the last missing sheot was Friday 10, then there would be 16? days, divided by six dates per sheet, accounting for 27 missing shoots or 54 pages. These 27 shects are between the last page of miscellanedus printed information and the first page of the diary headed Saturday June 11, 1864. ‘Twenty-five of the edaes of these pages are visible and have been cut. There are two additional sheets (four pages) of which the edges are not observable. Those edges may have been obscured by the laminatina of the respective connecting pages. Rach packet of pages making up the diary consists of eight shects (sixteen pages). On the first page of most of the packets a consecutive number can be seen on the lower portion of the inside bound edge. The number two appears on the remaining portion of the first missing page. The second, third and fourth remaining packet edges are accounted for, totaling twenty-four sheets or forty-eight pages. The first shect of the fifth packet is also present for a total of twanty-five sheets (fifty pages). ‘The next tvo sheets of packet number five, which are missing, and of which the edgas are not visible, were originally connected with the two packet pages headed June 23 and June 29. Page 2 (over) D-770615073 PrIt was noted that many of the remaining edces of the of twenty-five missing sheets contain portions of hanaweiteng which in addition to the cut edges would assist in any future examinations relating to these missing page: The shoat (to pages) headed Sunday July 17, 1964 © has beon torn out. The next missing portion of the diary et is the top 1 1/2" of the sheat which would be headed Wednesday August 10, 1064. The side of this sheet representing Saturday August 13 contains sone vory limited lead markings The sheets headed Monday August 22 and August 28 have be out. The sheet headed December 9 has also been removed. Retween the Homoranda sheets following the dated pages and the pages headed "Cash Account - January" there are three additional sheets torn out. There is a cash account shect for February/March cut out; a cash account sheet for April/May torn out; the top portion of the cash account sheet for May/June removed and the cash account sheet for August/September cut out. Between the summary of cash account page in the baék of the diary and the rear cover there are three torn out sheets, a half torn out sheet and a full torn out sheet, respectively. In total, there aze forty-three full sheets (eighty-six pages) missing from the diary. The inside front covor which contains handwriting, exhibits characteristics oft normal wear and abrasion. While the Paper surface is raised, it is believed that most of the abrasion was the result of items carried within the pockets of the diary. While a positive conclusion could not be reached in this regard there fs no indication of any intentional erasures or obliteration. most of the text on the inside front cover is extremely faint, and the content of some of the visible text is open to interpretation. The only handwriting which is clear enough to be beyond question is the wording and numerals "3221; 4207 6+ Douglass; _7_St.s 587 __ardy __S_ers." In order to provide a more complete and coherent description of the quettionable text, one interpretation is as follows: "3221; __Mf., 420 P __ betweon 6 & 7; Douglass 47 South St., St. Tavis, mor 58%: ards J. Chansiers." * The brown semicircular mark on the inside cover and the title page of the diary is a stain of unknown origin. an are additional stairs throughout the diary of unknown origin, Page 3 (over) D=970615072 PxTho inside of the hack cover also exhibits characteristicg of woar ani abrasion. Several lines have been crossfd through. The only text that could positively be determined ara the numbers 57 and 407, Other wording and numerals“axist however, a reasonable interpretation of theirs; content cannot be derived from the ronaining portions alone, What appears to be text on the diary page headed 4. Friday June 17, 1864 is actually transferred text from the “' surrounding pages. Host of this text is from the page headed June 26, Additionally, in at least one location, parts of the text from the page headed Tuesday June 14, have transferred directly to the page headed Friday June 17. This transference is exhibited on all of the laminated pages. ‘The primary cause for this transference from page to pag has to do with the fact that the original writing produced indentations on one side of the pages and raised characteristics on the reverse sides. Over the years dirt, oils, etc. have been deposited on the raised areas. The raised characteristics produced by the writing on the June 29 page can be seen in reverse (i.e., a mirror image) not only on the Friday June 17: page but also on the Junc 23 page. Tho opposite effect can be geon on the Monday June 20 page. Here especially in the lower left area of the page, an impression of the June 29 writing can be seen. However, in this case the writing was indented rather than raised, Tho paper surrounding the indentations has collected dirt and darkened, and the indentations remained cleaner and therefore appear jichtor. + 7 All non-destructive tests including forensic photographic techniques such as infrared reflectance, infrared luninescence,“ultra-violet reflectance and visible fluorenscence with ultra violet excitation were negative regarding examinations concerning purported secret writings in the diary. Aa a rosvit of tho complete oxamination of the diary, no invisible writinis, unusual obliterations or alterations or any characteristics of question were found. & Page 4 (over) i D-770615073 Pi2 datet of tax diavy are faintly Lined sith hordzoatal blue Liss 2 four sheets of tre diary headed Saturday Juno 11, Frdday Jurs 1 raday Juas 23, and vadnesday June 29 havo at an corlipr date baon lutinated and rebound into the diory. ba these pages, very fain: indications of lines oxist hoover, 2 to the age, dirt and la-taation they are extronely sears to nota, It was noted thit the next page headed Tuestay uly 5: is 1a sinflax condition bur not Tardnated. im areas of this page the visibility of th: faint Lines is also hinderud by wor charactorieties and dirt. a the lesa worn areas of a paye the lines aro vinibla, In addition, the laninated ehaets 2 gilt odgad like the rozt of the pages in the diary. The 2 si conniatent throughout the Clary "i all of the dated pages wers printed utilizing the save mathot, 1s the printiag on these dlary pages exhibits characteristics whicn rosotble an offaet rethod, the posaibiiity that lntterprass was used camtot ba clinina DLL pages of ths dlary were examined for dndonted vriti-ga, nm wore noted on the paje headed Tuestay July $, 1iC4, Te was stormlast that those dicontations resulted from handwritiag on the provious page. of uiese incentations also show on the pace heacca Uoaday July 12. ee only other indantationa noted are om the cagh account pace for So;"erber. These appzar to be numbers, hoviver, they ate loo Lvidstinet for the text to bo catorsined, fa previously noted ths preceding page te miseing. In couthuaion tt wag duet that the haadvriting contadend da the dLary ¢ sive of the taaida of ths frost ant rare cover) was prepared uy thé weir: rnished by the Uaiieant Arcaivea as known handwriting of NILES 200TH. bus to the indintinctness of tha faint writings avis of tno 3 it could aot be determined if : ve those writings. Ol, BL avd assorted photoyraphe are returned hercwiths Tage 5 : B-772045973 PA